How Gender Theory Self-Destructs

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If you want to describe modern Gender theory, you should cite people like John Money, who argued, “Gender is a social construct.” Or Judith Butler, who said, “Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.” These leading thinkers of the theory all seem to argue that gender is a social convention or social construct, rather than something grounded in objective or observable reality. And because they are conventions, that means that they must be voluntarily participated in. No one should be forced to adopt or participate in social conventions.

And it’s on this basis that gender theorists can argue that traditional Christian notions of gender, based on traditional beliefs about the nuclear family are social conventions that should not be imposed on people who do not conform to them.

But if that's true, that means that conventions and practices inspired by gender theory are, on their own view, also social conventions which is why they have no more grounds to force people to participate in those conventions than conservatives can force people to adhere to traditional conventions.

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